The expanded meeting of Congress's committees was attended by specialized committees and additional legislators, and might also include the Candidate Speaker and the Speaker himself.
For example, the meeting currently being held by the Emergency Committee was a discussion concerning the large number of privately built shelters that might disrupt the Federal Shelter resettlement plan.
The interests involved in the topic of this meeting far exceeded what the Emergency Committee could handle on its own, so an expanded meeting had to be held for discussion, allowing more legislators to participate.
But as the core "primary attendees," the members of the Emergency Committee were all seated in the most conspicuous positions in the front row.
Catherine sat in the third seat along the aisle on the left side of the front row, which was also the position of the Third Figure in the Emergency Committee.
The No. 1 position was held by a veteran Senate holdout in Congress. At the same time, this holdout was also a senior standing member of the Federal Budget Committee, and his family had an extraordinary background. He was a typical member of a Political Family.
One of his ancestors had even appeared in that famous oil painting, and the family took pride in it.
The Second Figure had roughly the same background, but he was older, already seventy-four, and often did not concern himself with affairs.
Although he was also a standing member and shouldered much of the committee's internal work, because of his health, Catherine and the No. 1 Committee Member each took on part of his authority, work, and responsibilities.
In other words, Catherine was actually a second-in-command figure.
This arrangement had been made at Lin Qi's request.
When Catherine had first entered the Senate, her qualifications were still quite shallow. It was